Inspirational Insights

Children, Families, Community and Science Coming Together to Cure Pediatric Cancer

PCRF Stories of Hope

From stories of children overcoming odds and the families who support them to incredible accounts of people coming together to raise money and awareness for pediatric cancer research, these stories will inspire you and help envision a future free from childhood cancer. Learn more about the obstacles our cancer heroes are overcoming and how the community is helping researchers find a cure. Have a story of your own? Please contact us at PCRF so we can share the HOPE.

Learn more about our cancer warriors and how they are inspiring support for cancer research through their stories of bravery and triumph. Your support can make a difference in the lives of children and families just like these.

Just one person can make a difference. Read the inspiring stories of individuals, companies and other groups who have helped give hope by supporting pediatric cancer research. You can make a difference too.

Meet the researchers who are behind the scenes working hard to change the face of childhood cancer every day. It’s their hard work, innovation, and dedication to the cause that makes all the difference.

Brandon Crawford of the San Francisco Giants supports pediatric cancer research! In the fight against pediatric cancer, there are no rivalries! Brandon Crawford of the San Francisco Giants is all in when it comes to lending a hand in this battle. Join Brandon today...

Press Release - IRVINE, CA (April 3, 2018) –On Saturday and Sunday, Mar. 24 and 25, the 20th Anniversary Reaching for the Cure Half Marathon, 10K, 5K and Kids Run race weekend was held on the Irvine Valley College campus with contributions totaling over $525,000 to help reach for a cure for pediatric cancer.

Remembering Keanna In part two of our Valentine's Day blog series, we are honoring Keanna. Keanna was a happy and free-spirited angel with nothing but love and laughter to spread to others around her. She

In part two of our Valentine's Day blog series, we are honoring Megan. Megan was a vibrant young woman that could light up the entire room with her smile. She was so full of compassion and always doing everything she could to help others.

This Valentine’s Day, we are remembering our loved ones – whose lives deserve to be shared and celebrated today, and every day, the cancer warriors who inspire us to keep pushing forward, fighting for a cure. Their legacies continue to live on by the efforts of their friends and family.

We'd like you to meet Dr. Kathleen Sakamoto, Translational Research Grant recipient. Dr. Sakamoto's hope is to improve the overall survival of children with relapsed leukemia so that they will live healthy and productive lives.

We’re honored to announce Orange Aluminum as our official 5K Run Title Sponsor for our 20th Anniversary Reaching for the Cure event on Sunday, March 25, 2018. This marks the second year of support from Orange Aluminum.

What makes each one of our 2017 PCRF Scholarship Awardees unique are their individual stories of bravery. They have hope and dreams for the future made possible by the great research funded by you. We’d like you to meet Diann, a cancer survivor who is compassionate in every sense of the word.